Sunday, December 18, 2016

Boogying his way to doomsday (Chapter 1)

The organization — which hosts a massive annual meeting of Earth and space scientists — unequivocally asserts that the evidence of human-caused climate change is irrefutable and that the issue should be addressed, but it simultaneously strives to remain officially apolitical and nonpartisan. As the organization’s members — including many of the scientists whose work produced the theory of climate change as we know it — grapple with the new political reality of President-elect Donald Trump, under whom research-funding agencies could be led by climate-change deniers, the AGU may be unable to keep walking the thin green line.